Category: Locations
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There are moments in battle when the drill book becomes luxury. Captain John Bigelow Jr. of the 9th Massachusetts Light Battery reached one of those moments late on July 2, 1863 – when the familiar order, “limber up and withdraw,” became a death sentence. The men, who would have had to step into the open…
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On July 3, 1863, survival at Gettysburg was sometimes measured not in yards or seconds – but in arm-lengths of stone. Along Cemetery Ridge, near what is today the towering Pennsylvania Monument, Union soldiers found themselves so close to annihilation during the Confederate artillery bombardment preceding Pickett’s Charge that only the raw contours of the…
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On the southern edge of the Gettysburg battlefield, beyond the crowds that gather on Little Round Top, there rises a quieter hill – Big Round Top, a steep, wooded mass of ancient diabase boulders. Its slopes saw little of the dramatic combat that immortalized its smaller neighbor, yet the ground here holds something equally remarkable:…
So Nobly Advanced 